 Viewing, with a smile of pity and indulgence, the various errors of the vulgar, they diligently practised the ceremonies of their fathers, devoutly frequented the temples of the gods, and sometimes condescending to act a part on the theatre of superstition,...  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Side 37av Edward Gibbon - 1875Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Peter Brown - 1989 - 364 sider
...the pagan world would not have functioned the way it did; 'sometimes condescending to act a part in the theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes.'4' Some ac43. 'All religions depend Co some degree on local circumstances . . . Among learned... | |
 | Joseph Mali - 2002 - 296 sider
...the various errors of the vulgar, they diligendy practised the ceremonies of their fathers, devoudy frequented the temples of the gods; and sometimes...sentiments of an atheist under the sacerdotal robes'. 29 In their ironic treatment of mythology those ancient reasoners simply recognized what Plato had... | |
 | 1993 - 1068 sider
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 | S. N. Balagangadhara - 1994 - 586 sider
...the various errors of the vulgar, they diligendy practised the ceremonies of their fathers, devoudy frequented the temples of the gods; and sometimes...sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. ... It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of the multitude might choose to assume; and they... | |
 | Robert Taylor - 1997 - 526 sider
...and mdulgence the various eriors of the vulgar, they diligently practised the cerciuonio.- «.f their fathers, devoutly frequented the temples of the gods...theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments o!' * All '!-« inferior deities in limner, ire represented u iliiu addraar.ng thitt* Jo\0 " Oil ftntund... | |
 | Alice Meynell - 2004 - 140 sider
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 | 1976 - 908 sider
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 | 1855 - 854 sider
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 | 1881 - 306 sider
...commands of law and custom. They concealed the sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Devoutly frequented the temples of the gods, and sometimes...condescending to act a part on the theatre of superstition." Such was Atheism in the ancient world, and even to-day in the modern world it is self-esteem, pelf-interest,... | |
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